Had a great day at my local field last Sunday, finally the ground was clear of snow and lots of thermals to chase in the sun, days best was a +8 mins and also got several +2 and +3 mins as well. Was pretty stoked when I had to go to my 13 hours nightshift. My flying buddy filmed some with my cam and I had to test how the sequence pics turned out in a vid. Hope you enjoy!

There is grass in NM - pictures of it, actually, in the Farm and Ranch Museum.

I was in Farmington just last summer, going through to and from the Blue Skies over Utah. It's a great little town, but probably nothing like any town in Michigan. Except for the airport up on the mesa, it's strung out along the San Juan River. Which, I'm sure, a resident of Michigan might not recognize as a river, especially if you expect to see water.

I tried a neck strap once. Fortunately, a passer-by was able to stop laughing long enough to untangle me before I strangled to death. Since then, I've concentrated real hard, and only thrown the radio twice.

I have tried without neckstrap and it was not so much the risk of throwing the radio as that dropping it when I held the plane after the catch, Im used to have it hanging there from my slope flying and every time I catched and held the plane I started to let go of it. So far no problems with the strap...

There where snow here 2 weeks ago, but the spring came early this year, thankfully.
It looked like this then: